Prod. 2074 - Peter Pan (VII) - Seq. 06.0 - Captured by Indians

Directed by Ham Luske, laid out by Lance Nolley, Ken O'Conner and Charles Philippi. Assistant director Rusty Jones, secretary Ruth Wright. This FINAL draft dated 8/26/52.

Hugh Fraser, Art Stevens, Hal King, Bob Carlson, John Lounsbery (John, Michael, Lost Boys), Bob Carlson also monkeys, Hugh Fraser also Trees, John Lounsbery also Trees and Indians, Marvin Woodward (Michael). In other words, most all animators share duties on most of the characters in this sequence.

Prod. 2074 - Peter Pan (VI) - Seq. 05.0 - Arrival in Neverland

Directed by Ham Luske, laid out by Al Zinnen, Charles Philippi and Lance Nolley. Assistant director Rusty Jones, secretary Ruth Wright.
This FINAL draft dated 5/7/52.

Animated by Clar Weeks, Marc Davis and Les Clark (Tink), Woolie Reitherman, Marvin Woodward, Wetzel "Judge" Whitaker (Lost Boys), Harvey Toombs and Hal Ambro (Wendy), Milt Kahl (Peter, Wendy, John, Michael), John Freeman (Peter, Wendy), John Lounsbery and Hal King (John, Michael).

Nice to see the draft assigning the characters to the animators - which does not happen often.

A big Thank You to Mike Sporn for his nice words! We aim to please!

Also, Happy 84th Birthday to Mr. Mouse, whom I first met when neither of us had turned 50 yet. I hope to be as vigorous at his age!

Finally, give a thought to Jeanette (Mrs. Frank) Thomas, whose memorial has started as I post this - but which I have to miss because, well, I am on the other side of the globe.
I will always miss Jeanette, as I will miss Frank, Marie and Ollie.

Prod. 2074 - Peter Pan (V) - Seq. 04.0 - Introduction to Hook & Smee

Directed by Gerry Geronimi, laid out by Tom Codrick and Don Griffith. Assistant director Lou Debney, secretary Marie Dasnoit.
This FINAL draft dated 5/27/52.

Animation by Cliff Nordberg (Hook, Smee, Pirates, Crocodile), Fred Moore (Pirates, Smee), Art Stevens (Pirates), Ollie Johnston (Smee), Frank Thomas, Woolie Reitherman and John Lounsbery (Hook), Don Lusk (Wendy, John, Michael), John Freeman (Peter, Wendy, John, Michael), Hal King (John, Michael), Harvey Toombs (Peter, Wendy), Eric Larson (Peter), Marc Davis and Clair Weeks (Tink), Clarke Mallory (Peter) and George Rowley (Effects).

Prod. 2074 - Peter Pan (IV) - Seq. 03.0 - Flight to Neverland

Directed by Wilfred "JAXON" Jackson, laid out by MacLaren Stewart. Assistant director Mike Holoboff, secretary Toby (Tobelmann).
This FINAL draft dated 10/2/52.

Off to Neverland, folks!


Animation by Eric Larson, Don Lusk and Harvey Toombs (Peter, Wendy, John, Michael, Tink), Hal King (Peter, Wendy, John, Michael), Norm Ferguson (Nana), Clair Weeks (Tink). Again a pretty clear division of tasks, though we have three animators handling all characters.

Clair Weeks, who was Marc Davis' assistant, is credited for the scenes of Tink where she is larger in the field than in the other scenes. This could actually mean three things: 1) Weeks animated the scenes, 2) Davis planned them and passed the job of actually animating them to Weeks, and 3) Davis animated them, Weeks then assisted and became the contact person on the scenes - for as I wrote earlier, these sheets were created to designate responsibility. The only real way of figuring this out is looking at the scenes themselves - one can make stylistic judgements, of course, but the only proper way is looking at the scene folders and drawings, which may or may not exist and may or may not reside in the A.R.L...

(As always, I welcome comments, even if it's about the first time you saw the film or your meeting one of the animators etc.)

Prod. 2074 - Peter Pan (III) - Seq. 02.1 - Learning to Fly

Directed by Wilfred "JAXON" Jackson, laid out by MacLaren Stewart. Assistant director Mike Holoboff, secretary Toby (Tobelmann).
This FINAL draft dated 10/1/52.

Hal King (John, Michael), Harvey Toombs (Wendy, Peter), Milt Kahl (Peter, Wendy, John, Michael), Marc Davis (Tink), Ward Kimball (John), Eric Larson (Peter, Wendy), Clarke Mallory (Peter, Wendy, John, Michael), Hal Ambro (Wendy), Clair Weeks (Tink).

Again we have the usual majors (Milt, Marc), captains (Hal King, Harvey Toombs, Hal Ambro) and foot-soldiers (Clarke Mallory, Clair Weeks). Alberto Becattini has "Mallery" as Clarke Mallory, and notes that he also did voice work on the shorts in the early 50s.

Prod. 2074 - Peter Pan (II) - Seq. 02.0 - Wendy Meets Peter

Directed by Wilfred "JAXON" Jackson, laid out by MacLaren Stewart. Assistant director Mike Holoboff, secretary Toby (Tobelmann).
This FINAL draft dated 10/1/52.

The second sequence has a slew of animators working on both Peter and Wendy, with Don Lusk animating one scene. Here we meet Milt Kahl, Eric Larson, Hal Ambro, Harvey Toombs and Don Lusk (Peter Pan and Wendy), Ken O'Brien (Wendy), Marc Davis, Les Clark and effects animator George Rowley (Tinker Bell).